- As JAMB assures of getting their results the same day
By Gom Mirian
No fewer than eighty-four thousand candidates, on Tuesday sat for the 2023 Mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (Mock-UTME) which took place in 387 Computer-Based Test (CBT) centers nationwide.
The examination conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) across the country assured candidates of accessing the results of the exam the same day.
“They will get their results today, of course, the results will be out today, and how many of them? 84,000,” Oloyede said.
The Africa Health Report’s correspondent who monitored the exercise in some of the Computer Based Test (CBT) centres in Abuja, reported that candidates were seen taking part in the examination in an orderly manner.
In a chat with one of the candidates at the Total Child Model College located at Dutse, in the Federal Capital Territory, Luka Mercy told the Africa Health Report that she was so happy that the mock exam went on as planned this time around without any issues.
Miss Mercy who was afraid should the exam be postponed again, says the exam was a good and successful one.
She added that there are no more worries. “The computer did not go off and I finished successfully and I enjoyed the questions that were set,” Mercy said while smiling.
Asked about the course she intends to study, the 17-year-old Mercy said: “I applied to Nasarawa State University, Keffi, to study Political Science. I want to become a politician in the future and if possible, the first woman president of Nigeria.”
Registrar/Chief Executive of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Is-haq Oloyede, while fielding questions from newsmen after monitoring the exam in Abuja, expressed delight over the hitch-free exercise.
Oloyede said the glitches earlier observed in the Mock-UTME in some centers prompted it to be rescheduled as a result of deployments of innovations.
His words: “We should also thank the students for bearing with us when we were trial-testing. You know we gave notice that we were moving to a new level and I think by God’s grace, we are now arriving at the next level. Those things we wanted to test, we have seen what they were and we went back and made sure everything works and it is working.
“We will still be focused on issues relating to cable – that you called network in the Centre, there may be a few centers that we may have one problem or the other but we are going to get over that.
“For example, we have decided all those with zero thin clients (computers that have no CPU identity but rely on a central server and share the same IP address) will have to change if they must continue on our network”.
